Review: GoodSync's features are rich but require study
GoodSync is single-minded: It’s intended to provide automatic synchronization and backup across folders and remote volumes. That narrow focus has two repercussions. First, the utility offers exhaustive, rich, and deep support for an array of services and options. Second, the learning curve for using the program to its best advantage is challenging. This program isn’t for beginners, but other users will love it once they learn to use it—that is, if they learn to use it.
As opposed to file-transfer programs such as Interarchy and Transmit, which have automated features but excel the most at manual interactions between files stored locally or remotely, GoodSync is strictly designed for setting up routine behaviors that happen without intervention.
You say you have two folders in two places, and you want the contents to be made similar or identical, subject to a few rules? Or you want one folder to add to or replace the contents of the other? GoodSync is on the job! But where to begin?
GoodSync shows the progress as it copies files to make two folders have identical, up-to-date contents.
The program starts out with jargon and never lets up. The documentation is rife with dense descriptions that my inner techie revels in, as I know precisely in what circumstances a given outcome will occur. But the descriptions are so dense that you have to read them, and reread them, to suss out the full meaning.
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